well. snow or not for saturday? storm track is so, so important almost every storm we get and that's not the exception this time. it's all about the track. low goes farther south to sea and we get little or no snow tomorrow for the metro area. most of the snow stays well to the south and southeast, but if that low pressure system hugs the coast a little bit more, stays a little bit farther to the west, and begins to get a little bit stronger tomorrow afternoon, closer to shore it looks like we have a chance for more snow along the i-95 corridor. that includes d.c., coming up in the full forecast we'll talk about what i think what our thinking is for tomorrow and where the snow will be. gary thank you. now to breaking news tonight, former illinois congressman jesse jackson jr. has been formally charged with conspiracy, federal prosecutors say he spent $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses. his wife sandra also charged with filing false income tax

forms. in a statement jackson offers no excuses for his conduct and fully accepts responsibility for the improper divisions he's made -- decisions he's made. another big story tonight. where the blinding flash and a booming shock an event straight out of a sci-fi movie. a meteor blazed across parts of the skies in russia and exploded with the force of an atomic bomb. many sent to the hospital and hundreds were hurt. we begin the coverage at 5:00 with a look at what happened from fox's greg pal cot. >> reporter: this amateur video catching the meet yore speeding to earth at more than 33,000 miles per hour. turning to a massive fireball overhead in just seconds. the explosion lightings up the early morning sky cameras from all across this russian city 1,000 miles from moscow catching the rare event. on their cell phones including a sonic boom breaking through earth's atmosphere. the amazing event also a

destructive one. explosion of the meteorite showering the city below with fireballs. shattering windows and damaging buildings. nearly 1,000 people were hurt. most of the injuries minor though. folks struck by debris and broken glass. [ speaking foreign language ] >> after the flash something happened for about three minutes. then we rushed outdoors. i was not alone. i was there with katya. the door was made of glass, a shock wave hit us. >> reporter: ironically, the event occurring in the same day an asteroid is supposed to buzz by earth closer than any asteroid has since 15 years ago and scientists started monitoring them. experts insist it will miss the planet by more than 17,000 miles coming closer than communication and weather slights which orbit the -- satellites which orbit the earth. >> on the scale of every 1,000 to 2,000 years and again they're about the size of the olympic swimming pool. they don't pose a threat and this one isn't going to come close the colliding with -- to colliding with the earth. >> reporter: it blew up around

18 to 32 miles above the ground. in london, greg pal cot. fox news. of course the sky show, the structural damage and all the injuries suffered in russia today has many people wondering about meteors and could it happen here? fox 5's bob barner has the explanation. >> reporter: we went to the smithsonian institution today looking for answers and spoke to their experts on all things having to do with meteors and meteorites. most showers the ones we often see are basically dust particles falling through earth's atmosphere but occasionally larger rocks like the ones today do crash to the earth's surface. these samples are kept in a special vault part of the u.s. national meteorite collection at the museum of natural history. some are four billion years olds. geologists tell us not to worry. most meteorites land in remote locations or fall into the oceans. still many people we spoke to on the streets of washington say they're fascinated by what happened half a world away.

>> it is amazing. it's amazing, you would think that the world would come to an end right now. >> thank god it didn't. >> thank god it didn't. >> rain down on you out of nowhere pretty scary. >> i think it's actually bound a happen a little bit more. i mean i'm surprised it hasn't happened or we haven't heard much more about it. >> you think about the stein saurs and -- dinosaurs and they're no longer here because an asteroid came down and caused all sorts of havoc. >> by the way a meteor falls through the earth's atmosphere. a meteorite ends up in the rock collection you saw today. you'll hear from the top expert, a geologist with quite a collection and some fascinating information. >> bob that was fascinating now we know the difference between a meteor and a meteorite. thank you. will? a great deal of questions and mystery surrounding this. nasa ambassador greg red fern also the sky guy is here. always good to see you. >> you too will. >> whether or not this thing actually hit the ground?

do we know that yet? >> i think that there was an impact because before we went on air i was surfing the net and they show a picture of a 26- foot wide crater in the ice. and in studying the video that we saw today. it looks like after the terminal burst which was a big flash that everybody saw was brighter than the sun. there were other meteorites that fell to ground that an expedition will go out and map the field where all this things landed and give us a good picture of what happened that day. >> the folks that actually do this. you call them hunters right? >> yes i can guarantee you there are people who have got their passports and they're on their way to there right now to join the people there. >> not just because they're interested. there's value here right? >> absolutely. i tell you with an event like this, you're talking tens of thousands of dollars for little specimens. it's going to be really big. >> good as gold. >> lot of gold actually. >> i think you're right. >> given all the glass that

shattered in such a wide range you know for hundreds of miles. talk about the sonic boom. why it carried so much. >> okay. everybody's experienced probably a sonic boom from an airplane military aircraft going boom. and this was according to nasa, an event that was on the scale of an atomic weapon. so it takes time for that shock wave to physically travel distance from wherever it occurred in the earth's atmosphere to hit the ground. so with one report i read, three minutes between the time of the big flash and then that boom. that shock wave goes and takes out a million square feet of glass and damages 3,000 buildings over a wide area. >> and greg, given the fact that people were hurt, how rare is this? >> i have to be honest will. i am not aware of anything in the history books talking about this many -- 1100 people -- being hurt by a single event. i think it's the first time. >> can you imagine in this happened in a metropolitan area like d.c. with all the glass

that we have and everybody would be thinking it's a terrorist attack. >> it can happen anywhere and russia was the ground zero today. >> does this have any correlation or connection to the doomsday asteroid? >> no, preliminary results on what we know with the trajectory of the one that came in over russia and 2012 da 14 they are not related. they are going to do more studies but right now nasa has come out and said they don't think it's relates. right now 2012 da 14 is on its way out from us. it's safely past and we're okay and you can tune in tonight at 9:00 and watch life images going out courtesy of nasa. thiazole on the blog. >> what's the website? wttg underneath weather. >> myfoxdc.com under the weather. greg red fern. let me talk a little bit manufacture about that -- more about that asteroid. it was the closest fly by ever for a rock of its size. 150 feet and it missed earth by

17,000 miles and that is closer than many communication and weather satellites. but as asteroids go, it was a small one. the one that wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago was six miles across. still developing tonight, the fallout from the cruise ship katz tee. the ship finally reached land latinos and it the 4,000 people on board had been stranded on sea since sunday with little food and horrible conditions. a fire knocked out the ship's main power source. jonathan receiverry has the latest now from mobile. alabama. >> reporter: some of the passengers on board that carnival triumph cruise ship are already home and others will be boarding flights throughout the day. carnival chattered a total of 20 planes and 100 buses for passengers aboard the triumph. everyone seemed relieved to be on dry land last night but with the conditions they endured on the ship, many passengers seemed to take it all in stride.

>> we got some stories on the internet about how bad like that there was you know, stuff dripping down the walls and things like that. yes there was places where there were and i definitely saw some very disgusting things. but i felt that -- you know, under the circumstances,have be >> reporter: friday morning, the carnival triumph was towed from the alabama cruise terminal across mobile bay to bae a company that operates a shipyard where the vessel will undergo repairs, carnival says it will not be in service until late april at the very earliest. and in addition to undergoing mechanical repairs clean-up crews have their work cut out for them and the ntsb is investigating the cause of the engine fire that caused the ship to lose power on sunday. in mobile, alabama, jonathan serrie. fox news. >> we also learned the first lawsuit against carnival has already been fired. the passenger says the company failed to provide a seaworthy vessel in sanitary conditions

and also the passenger from texas claims she suffered harm while the ship was stranded. now to news out of d.c. where police have arrested a man in connection with an explosion out of virginia sub shop. it happened earlier this month. we covered it quite a bit. 25-year-old horus thompson is accused of detonating a device inside this sub shop on richmond highway in lorton. the owner of the shop was hurt in the fire and he is now recovering at home. thompsonson is awaiting extradition from d.c. to fairfax county. new details tonight in the murder of a 94-year-old alexandria man. a woman charged with burglarizing elmer roars' home last november is very likely to be charged in the murder. the commonwealth's attorney says the woman 45-year-old marie johnson remains held without bond as the investigation continues. frederick police tonight looking for a second vehicle connected to a jewelry store robbery. the incident happened at the

colonial jewelers february 5th. this is the other vehicle investigators believe may be connected to the robbery. witnesses saw it speeding away from the scene immediately after the robbery. if you recognize the vehicle give frederick police a call. an olympic star crying uncontrollably in court. that's because he's accused of killing his girlfriend. his first court appearance as we continue. >> and she was supposed to spend valentine's day with her mother. but she never made it. the family of a woman who went missing four years ago is still holding out hope their loved one will be found alive. >> it's one of the highest civilian honors in the country. find out why two people from our area received medals from president obama today. gary, i am still focused on this bonus sunshine you were talking about. >> well you know what? i think it's all going away now will because we already have basically showers moving on across. it's rain now. could turn into some snow though first future forecast is coming up. stay with us. 

welcome back. olympic gold medalist oscar pistorius sobbed in court today as prosecutors said they plan to charge him with premeditated murder. pistorius is accused of shooting his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp inside his home in south africa. the double amputee was arrested yesterday. if he's convicted he could spend the rest of his life in prison. it's now been four years since a d.c. woman vanished

with no sign of where she went. even the surveillance cameras inside her home show no signs of what went wrong. her ex-boyfriend was questioned but never charged. fox 5's paul wagner is here with a look at the pamela butler case that captured local headlines for months. paul? >> reporter: will, the family never wavered from the theory pam was murdered and her body hid machine a place where it may never be found. d.c. police continue to investigate the case. supervised by a veteran cold case prosecutor. but other than butler's disappearance, there's no solid evidence of a murder and her ex- boyfriend steadfastly denies having had anything to do wit. >> we haven't given up. it's not a cold case you know we're getting closer and closer every day. >> reporter: derrick butler misses his sister terribly. for four years he has been the one out front the one talking with police and the one talking with reporters can the bun trying the make -- and the one trying to make sure no one forgets about pam. >> you know it's hard

standpointing on this corner. this is -- standing on this corner. it is hard thinking that something happened to one of your siblings; it's hard. >> reporter: the house on fourth street northwest looks very different now. the new owner giving it a complete makeover. at one time it was a meticulously kept home by a 47- year-old federal worker with a state-of-the-art security system. when derrick butler learned his sister was missing he took a look. footage that shows her ex- boyfriend and not much else. >> if you look at just look at the cameras, nobody else is ever seen coming up to the house. she's seen going into the house. he's seen going into the house shortly thereafter. and he's seen coming and going at all -- odd hours of the night. and times when -- nobody had heard from pam. he's seen coming in and out of the house. >> reporter: d.c. police searched the house from top to bottom and had control of it for months. they also searched the park

where pam liked to jog as well as rock creek park where investigators believe the ex- boyfriend may have been around the time she disappeared. >> so the work continues to go into this case. it's not as if it's gone cold and you really have nowhere to go. >> no it has not gone cold. we are continuing to investigate the case. and we will continue to investigate the case. we hope to be able to bring this case to a conclusion. >> reporter: when pam butler first went missing, derrick confronted her ex-boyfriend with what he saw on the surveillance system. and other troubling behavior. >> he denied having any involvement in pam's missing. but in talking to him, he actually talked in past tense most of the time you know. i guess i'll just -- i'll never see her again. you know. i wish i could see her again. >> reporter: no one has heard from pam butler in the last four years although police say they have had reports from people who claim to have seen her. derrick butler though has no

doubt his sister did not disappear on her own. police have questioned butler's ex-boyfriend at least twice and searched his home. he's still living in the washington area. tomorrow afternoon, friends and family will gather on fourth street northwest in front of pam's old house and hold a vigil in her memory. >> like the family investigators are hoping for a resolution to this. paul wagner, thank you. a man u.s. marshals have been looking for since last november has now been arrested. jerry baptiste was picked up last night in southwest d.c.. he's been accused of running a heroin ring in northwest. maryland police launched an internal investigation because of a picture. here it is the troopers posing with popular rapper 2chains after they arrested him last night on drug charges on the eastern shore. the rapper posted this picture on instagram. the van he was riding in was pulled over for speeding and officers smelled marijuana and

found trace amounts in a backpack. he was given a citation and then released. still ego from a couple of days of sunshine and fun outside to maybe talk of snow right gary? >> yeah you know it's again, the earlier this week we had a day where we were right up to 60 degrees or so and then that night it was snowing remember that? we had snow on the ground the next morning. >> roller coaster. >> think the difference here is we don't end up with snow on the ground overnight tonight. that's not going to happen it looks like. but just go on record here as saying tomorrow looks very very interesting. not a real high confidence in the forecast for tomorrow at least not yet. we'll talk about that in the full forecast coming up in just a moment. a few minutes actually. first of all what we know. putting a little shower here, this is northern loudoun county and southern sections of washington county right there and into frederick. now i don't believe this is any sleet mixing in. i don't think that's the case. i think just a heavy pretty heavy shower moving on across

and coming up from the southwest to the northeast. looks like heavy rain -- not heavy rain but probably moderate rain will be pushing through most of frederick county over the next 30 to 45 minutes. in the district we're dry right now but that's probably going to change. a limit bit of light rain will come on through. in terms of the evening's forecast rain showers at 7:00 and mostly rain at 9:00. west and north there may be a little bit of snow mixing in and at 11:00 41, snow rain a little bit more snow mixing in. probably again mostly north and west. pretty important forecast coming up especially for tomorrow. what's the snow going to do? we'll have all the details coming up. >> thank you gary. he is one of the best basketball players of all time. really, ever if you think about it. this weekend, michael jordan turns can you believe? 50. >> wow. really? >> yeah. looks great. why the legend says he is working hard trying to get back to his playing ways, scott? >> well, i will say this transitioning out of michael jordan once in space jam.

we are at space coast stadium here in florida where the whole gang is just about here. position players joining pitchers and catchers. reporting for duty. coming up, we'll talk about this team that's loaded with talent and intangibles straight ahead on fox fox 5 news at 5:00. 

the boys of summer are down in florida getting ready for spring ball. fox 5 sports director scott smith is also there. so scott yesterday, they won for the pitchers and catchers. how was day two? >> reporter: well, shawn you know we're just getting warmed up here at spring training. yes it is day two official workouts for pitchers and catchers. position players join them today as well. reporting for duty. manager davey johnson praised all the pitchers but specifically by name dan haren the newcomer to the staff and also mentioned wilson ramos. his knee is feeling better. ryan zimmerman had off-season right shoulder surgery and i chatted with him today. he's going to ease into the workload but that she's feeling

good as well. everybody is feeling food and they look great and i will say two things. kind of stand out when you watch these guys. and when you talk to them or specifically. the two cs i'll say. they are confident and -- they are confident and they have chemistry. in some ways spring training is like a lab experiment. take veterans, rookies new and old mix them together for a few weeks in a controlled environment, and hope for a special kind of chemistry. >> chemistry is when 25 guys know their role and they know if they do their role, it can be expanded. that's good chemistry. >> reporter: the nats have already started to develop that chemistry and also seem to be in step when it comes to confidence which trickles down from the skipper who sounded the first shot in the off- season saying it's world series or bust. >> that's what everyone thinks you know. i've been thinking that since 2004 when i was in the minor leagues and thinking they we have to win the world series this year. but i mean obviously you set

high expectations for years. now they've come to reality. >> i think that's what every team should think going into spring training. immingle obviously you have your doubts and -- i mean obviously you have your doubts and you know how realistic that is. i would hope they would say yes. >> so they're confident and they have chemistry. you put them together and there could be one more c.. championship. >> it's more about 25 guys taking care of number one, and playing up to their potential. and then it all fits. >> reporter: so tomorrow position players get their physicals. and we are also expecting that closer that we brought in in the off-season. rafael soriano had the vie that stamped today and they're expecting him tonight or tomorrow. >> thank you scott. basketball legend michael jordan turns 50 this weekend. in honor of hitting the half century mark he's setting a big weight loss goal.

he's trying to get back to the playing weight of 218 pounds. he challenged himself after a recent vacation when well, he did what a lot of us do. he got on the scale and saw a number he didn't like. in his case 261 pounds. since then, he says he's been hitting the gym every morning and texting his nutritionist at meal times to see what he can or cannot eat. i would think a world class athlete like him would know what he >> he's not playing ball every day and doing the same things he used to do but happy birthday michael. >> 50 years old. i'm feeling old right now. >> i'm not. coming up tonight a victory for opponents of a plan to develop alexandria's waterfront. find out why that victory could be short-lived. >> plus, why government workers expecting a raise won't get one if lawmakers in the house get their way. >> and president obama honors the educator who is lost their lives -- educators who lost their lives in the connecticut

school shooting. the touching tribute is next. 

two people from our area are among 18 recipients of the 2012 presidential citizens' medals today. it's the second highest award a civilian can receive from the president of the united states. as fox 5's tom fitzgerald reports it's an award they share with many others they say. [ applause ] >> reporter: at the white house, president obama set the stage for a group of americans who he says approached citizenship not as a birthright but a responsibility. >> we get to recognize some extraordinary men and women who've gone above and beyond for their country and for their fellow citizens. >> maria gomez. >> reporter: maria was born in columbia but lives in washington. 25 years ago, her calling of service led her to create mary's center providing health

care for d.c.'s immigrant community. >> i hope that this -- this award will inspire other young leaders to take that road less traveled. >> reporter: terry t. shima. terry of gaithersburg fought in world war ii. and as thousands of his fellow japanese americans were being held in interment camps. he has worked ever since with veterans and students to teach history's lessons. >> and when that day arrives, you -- and we are faced with the same kind of an emergency, you will instinctively know what to do and what not to do. >> reporter: this presidential citizens' medal is not only one of the highest honors the nation bestows upon its citizens but also one of the most exclusive. the white house says the 18 honorees today were chosen from a list of more than 6,000 nominees. but not all of the 18

recipients could accept their honor in person. >> a special note just to the families who are here from sandy hook. >> reporter: as families of the six teachers killed in the connecticut school shootings received their medals, many choked back tears. bill, katie and laura received the award on behalf of the school's psychologist mary sherlock. >> when you talk about first responders they are that day and they did everything they could with what they had. >> reporter: for the 18 recipients of this presidential citizens' medal, what they had is now joined by what they themselves represent for the rest of the country. at the white house, tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. >> the house voted to extend a pay freeze for federal workers. they've already had the same wages now for more than two years. now they have to wait at least another nine months to get that raise. house republicans say the pay freeze will save $11 billion but the bill still has to pass through the senate. virginia senator mark warner says america's financial crisis will take more than just

taxes on the rich to fix. he says the country's debt crisis would eventually affect all of us. senator warner spoke on w top today about the budget cuts that will kick in in just two weeks if congress doesn't hammer out something better. >> at the end of the day going to have to come from more than just the top 1%. there needs to be some sense that we're kind of all in this together. and in a progressive way. i mean obviously folks midsable class needs to be much smaller number. >> if there's a real debt deal in place it will do more for job growth than any program suspected in the presidential -- in the presidential campaign. they're changing their strategy to move the city's waterfront development plan forward. fox 5's john hanrahan has the latest. >> reporter: shawn if new strategy appears to give opponents of the plan to develop the waterfront in commands doctor a victory. but it's a procedural one. in fact this latest strategy will attempt to set it will

waterfront -- settle the waterfront issue in alexandria once and for all next month. much of the commercial prosperity in old town stems from the proximity to the potomac river. most of the waterfront is beautiful. but there are a couple of old commercial warehouses there soon to be sold by a subsidiary of the "washington post" company. presumably sold to developers. this land is already commercially zoned so the new owners could easily build riverfront housing or offices here. city officials have tried to change the zoning to allow about 20% more density. that would bring more tax revenue to alexandria say from a hotel. and the developer would have to guarantee broad public access to the waterfront. opponents want no more density and they have waged a legal battle in the courts claiming the city council's majority vote was insufficient. that the zoning change required a super majority vote. alexandria officials are now willing to yield on to

procedural point. >> we are agreeing to meet the super majority standard that the opponents are asking for even though we don'tty it's required. >> reporter: the mayor believes the relatively small increase at the density will help pay for future parks there. >> but we need to be able to be generating some tax dollars revenues, so that we can move forward. we as a city to do the things that the citizens want us to do on the waterfront like open space and like the flood mitigation. >> reporter: opponents of the city's walter front development plan remain skeptical of the change in tactics. >> certainly there are property rights and we want to make revenue and i think we can do a much better job. today circumvent the public process once again. >> reporter: after the november election the city council in alexandria has changed. it may now be easier to get a super majority in favor of the zoning change. city officials say they will and the planning commission to hold another hearing on the

whole waterfront plan early next month. and then, they will have the city council do a yes/no super majority vote at its regularly scheduled meeting saturday, march 16th. shawn? >> all right john thank you. coming up tonight a woman bitten by a rabid fox in a local park. >> and fighting the flu. why it appears flu activity has peaked across the country. >> what do you get when you mix a curious toddler with a whole bunch of magnets? well, it's the e. r. might have something to do with this story. the 5 continues in just a moment. 

d.c. animal control officers were forced to put down a rabid fox after it bit a mother on the leg in rock creek park. this past tuesday while she was taking a walk with her baby. city officials say the presence of the fox is actually a good thing. saying it shows d.c.'s environment is improving, making it attractive to wildlife. welfare fax county officials are stepping up their fight against inch worms. they plan to use helicopters to drop pesticides on the worms

instead of exterminating from the ground. the county says there will be drops scheduled in april. they will receive two letters with information prior to the sprays. as we continue on the 5 local high school students participate in a design challenge with the ultimate goal of helping people with disabilities. >> and police arrested a woman who allegedly abducted a young girl from school. how the suspect is connected to our area. >> winter weather returns this weekend. boo. right? gary is back with your forecast. stay with us.

a fox 5 health alert now. federal health officials say the flu is finally easing up in the u.s.. according to the cdc influenza activity decreased in many areas of the country last week. 21 states are reporting moderate to high activity. 13 report low activity.

and 16 states report minimal activity. the maryland children are using simple items like index cards and pvc pipes to make dramatic changes in the lives of others. the group made it to the finals of a national competition and today, they got to show off their work. as fox 5's beth parker reports, their designs come from the mind and the heart. >> reporter: what these high school kids are setting up has taught them few things. >> see how easy it was to change someone's life. >> reporter: brian jessica and neal attend poolesville high school. they're helping other people. why the workers clean the outside of the barrel they have to bend over and move around. it's awkward work. now, the students have designed a fix. >> the barrel's been placed on as such. >> it spins in the cradle. >> the employee can stand right here and just spin it and clean it as it goes. >> reporter: the kids are competing in the ability one challenge.

300 entries from all over the u.s.. two teams from poolesville. maryland qualified for the finals. kevin lee is their engineering teacher. >> they're going to earn probably hundreds of as in the next few years because they're bright kids. but to change someone's life? like they have and give an opportunity that they may never have again, it's huge for them. >> reporter: the kids from poolesville worked with the scott key center in frederick. it's a nonprofit that provides meaningful employment for people with disabilities. >> there are young but they're very seasoned in many ways already with checking data. doing research -- collecting data. doing research. >> reporter: the competition was five finaltists. are you guys nervous now? dennis, carlos and ryan built a tea packaging device and people with intellectual disabilities use a grid to count out the tea bags, not anymore. >> some employees begin by inserting the device into the tea box and it snuggly fits and doesn't move around much. that's great. then they just flop the tea

packets into the box just like this. >> they want a job. >> reporter: the poolesville team earned second and third place but they left with something much great iranian first prize. >> it was a really eye openings experience because personally i've never had any close contact with people with disabilities and i didn't know what to expect. but i realized now these are people just like you know, you and me. >> reporter: in arlington, beth parker, fox 5 news. a russian mother had to rush her toddler to the emergency room after realizing he'd swallowed dozens of magnets. the mom says she only left her son alone for a few minutes but that's all it took for the 16- month-old to swallow get this -- 42 kitchen magnets. you know that can be very dangerous. the boy immediately taken into surgery to remove the magnets and financial he's okay and now -- fortunately he's okay and now recovering. >> it happens very quickly you know. you turn your back and something can happen. >> very scary. speak of things happening very -- i mean today nice warm. tomorrow? >> 60.

60 degrees today. >> was it today the high? >> yeah. >> wow. >> i mean i can take a sandwich board out on wisconsin. 60 degrees the high temperature today right? >> really? you know what? >> be quiet. don't go there. >> my 7-year-old told me -- no. >> i thought she was going to challenge me to do that. >> my 7-year-old told me mom it's going to be warm today. i said no put on the hat and down coat before you go the school. >> he's smarter than you about that. >> maybe a future weather cast every right? >> she's kicking me. >> jack i'm sorry. >> no just joking, just joking. listen this is a challenge of a forecast. anytime you're 60 degrees and then you're talking about hmm where's the snow going to be? for tomorrow out there? beautiful shot on the tower camera. this is looking towards the cathedral and you can see all the way across to the monument in the distance and the river too. clouds are increasing and still some showers out there. primarily to the west of us. we had a little batch coming in town and it basically diploided across the top -- glided across

the top of us. couple of things happening here. even though we're seeing the precipitation we have a little bit of rain. then further back out to the north we have a mixture too. that's the pink on radar. it's not touching the ground as it comes across in the evening hours, and we get a little bit more numerous with the showers. we'll probably even change over to a possibility of a little mixture too. don't expect any accumulations though. at least not around here. overnight tonight. temperatures wow. 60 for a high today. we mentioned that though didn't we? 55 in d.c.. 45 for gaithersburg. look what happens when you put a little rain falling into a dry atmosphere. it lowers the temperatures so for winchester, for martinsburg and hagerstown temperatures have dropped if not into the 30s, very very close to the 40s. and here we're still sitting over here in the mid 50s because we haven't taken a lot of the rain or the precip moving on across. some rain showers out there at 7:00. 48 degrees or so. right around 50. mostly rain showers still at

9:00. temperatures since it's a real dry atmosphere temperatures will drop pretty quickly. we'll be in the lower to mid 40s. then by 11:00, i think we'll see some of this rain showers beginning to change over to snow showers. it does again we're not worried about any accumulation or anything like that overnight tonight and this little batch will get out of here. what you're seeing here this will come across over the next several hours and again we'll get a little bit of rain and rain and snow. and if at best, i think woe see a little bit of rightening of the grassy areas further to the north and the northwest. this is futurecast right now. it shows this batch of rain trying to come on across. now not everybody gets wet here but futurecast is at least seeing the rain. and it's at least seeing some of this is beginning to change over. as we take you through the overnight, not a lot. i mean just a few showers hit or miss here or there. a lot of us won't see anything. by tomorrow morning at 7:00, farther north and east you wake up to a little bit of sunshine possibly. here in the city, we're kind of

right on that dividing line. where there may be a little bit of sunny breaks in the sky but i think mostly cloudy here. as we progress through the day tomorrow, this is where things get tricky because we're going to begin to see a coastal storm system get stronger offshore and things beginning to come together. so it looks like by 1:00, we're beginning to see the precipitation coming up from the south and the southeast and this basically is reflection of the storm system getting a little bit stronger as we progress through the day. look where we're getting snow. extreme southern maryland down towards the norfolk area of virginia beach there. basically, southeastern sections of virginia. storm system gets going offshore and it may actually bring some good know amounts up there again for the -- snow amounts up there again for the folks up into boston. here's what we're thinking, just a few light snow showers along the i-95 corridor. the possibility of the accumulation up to 3-inches. that means maybe nothing. or all the way up to 3 inches

of snow out to the east of us. 36 overnight tonight. just rain, snow showers. little if any probably no accumulation. spotty snow shower tomorrow morning. cloudy at noon. and then we'll watch a few spotty snow showers late in the day. here's your accuweather seven day forecast. now let me say this and put a caveat on everything. storm system becomes stronger. it's a little fart -- closer to shore. that snow could be moving towards the i-95 corridor. could be completely honest, i don't know if it's going to do that or not. i don't know. so hopefully we'll have a little bit more information tonight at 10:00 and 11:00 and a higher confidence in the forecast. >> you know what gary? >> what's that? >> i like it when you're completely honest. >> completely honest. >> see i thought she was going to say i'm just going to ask jacks right? >> that wouldn't offend me because the kids are smart these days. >> they are. >> especially their kids. off the charts. >> that's true. >> smart. >> thank you gary. enough kissing up. ♪

well, if you try to get beyonce tickets for her show here in d.c., or even new york this morning you know they sold out there a flash. we're talking a minute after they went on sale they were gone. high demand though has organizerrers adding -- organizers adding another show to d.c. and new york. august 3rd and august 4th in new york city. i'm frustrated with that. >> i hear that from everyone. >> they went on sale at 10:00 and they were gone by 10:01. >> just go on to facebook. i think we're working on a late news report. stay tuned for that tonight. over to brian bolton now. >> new at 6:00 president obama takes the new gun legislation message to his hometown. what he had to say in a city that remains in the grip of an epidemic of gun violence. >> then a spectacular and scary event. more on the meteor that blazed through the sky over russia creating quite a show but also

stirring curiosity here in our our area. >> a high end jeweler slaps costco with a huge lawsuit. what the discount store is accused of next on the news edge. hang tight. 

a silver spring native is accused of kidnapping a child in a philadelphia school last month. christina regusters graduated from spring brook high school. police say she tried a snatch a 5-year-old girl from an afterschool program at the school. she posed as the child's mother. she's charged with kidnapping, conspiracy, aggravated assault and other climbs. -- crimes. they are also looking for a man they say was involved in the abuse. what started as a food fight in a school cafeteria turned into a brawl. four people hurt. hundreds of students were involved in the minneapolis school fight. you can see the students running to get out of the way

as it starts to pick up here. the food, plates and bottles flying and some even aimed at school staffers and police. in fact it got so bad officers had to use chemical spray to break it up. no one at this point has been arrested. well, thanks so much for joining us tonight at 5:00. >> the news edge at 6:00 starts right now. the news edge starts off with the president's plan that he's pushing for new gun control legislation. he's in his hometown of chicago. president obama made a plea to lawmakers to help ends gun violence there. the city has been plagued with gun related crimes. craig boswell reports for fox news. >> reporter: president obama stops at a south side chicago high school to personally deliver portion of the state of the union message. >> these proposals deserve a vote in congress. >> reporter: the city deals with an exploding gun